Phylidonyris
Sign in to savePhylidonyris is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family that are endemic to Australia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMeliphagidae
Observations recorded976,917
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 759
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Meliphagidae
- Collections
- ROM, ANWC
- Recorded in
- Australia
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Phylidonyris is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family that are endemic to Australia.
==Taxonomy== The genus Phylidonyris was introduced in 1830 by the French naturalist René Lesson to accommodate a single species, Certhia novaehollandiae Latham, 1790, now the New Holland honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae). The generic name Phylidonyris combines the term Phylédon or Philédon, used by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1817 for the friarbirds (now placed in the genus Philemon), with Cinnyris (Cuvier, 1816) for the sunbirds.
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